Paper Dolls

Took a few days off from my Retail Love for cake decorating courses at my new favorite spot to teach!  Crazy busy weekend filled with cakes and cake-loving students! This week I'm highlighting 3 more online companies that I am liking quite a bit.  First up is a great source for eco-friendly wedding and party favors-- Little Things Wedding Favors . Kind of amazing how many eco-friendly options are available.  Celebrate at a wedding, bring home a garden!  These favors are sweet.  I'd love to start a wildflower garden at my house; maybe these seed packets are exactly what I need for my next party. Eco-Friendly Hearts and Lines - Personalized Wedding Favor Seeds from: Little Things Favors I love it when party favors that are actually useful.  I would seriously use these: Natural Bamboo Eco-Friendly Coaster Favors from: Little Things Favors These are the cutest things--recycled wood mod clipboards! Eco-friendly Mod Micro Clipboards (1...

Receiving a gift that's personalized is always a teensy bit more special than other gifts. Especially when your given name is out of the ordinary. Like my two kids, for example. Every year during our summer vacation we haunt souvenir shops for the personalized state license plates with their names on them, "just in case" they've finally added them to the list. Our searches are always in vain. Standard souvenir shop merchandise always disappoints when you have an unusual name. So it's always nice to be able to order something personalized for a friend with an uncommon name, one of the many reasons I enjoy selling personalized paper and gifts!  Sweetest Whimsy has partnered as an affiliate with a company that offers a really wide array of gifts that you put a name onto-- A Gift Personalized .  They offer something for everyone, from babies to pets, holiday to holiday.  I love the range of products available.  Want a peek at what's in my shopping...

Sweetest Whimsy is now also an affiliate for Luna Bazaar!   Luna Bazaar offers GORGEOUS and truly unique decor and gifts for weddings and parties.  Perhaps you've seen their stuff in Martha Stewart Weddings or Amy Atlas's blog? What I love about Luna Bazaar is how different and colorful their selection is!  Wouldn't this be a memorable table decoration as well as party favor?   Silver Mercury Glass Vase (cup design) from: Luna Bazaar They're really known for their paper lanterns .  Lanterns in all colors and sizes, literally!  I love this one: Harmony Design White 36 Inch Paper Star Lantern from: Luna Bazaar But I think this is definitely my favorite!  It's a place card holder that your guests can take home and use as a photo holder.  They come in several different designs, with beautifully bejeweled detail. Place Card Holder (bejeweled dusky rose and blue butterfly) from: Luna Bazaar You can visit Luna Bazaar's websi...

I've enjoyed this particular website for a while now, so I am thrilled to bits that Sweetest Whimsy is an affiliate of Beau-Coup !  Beau-Coup has a little bit of everything--wedding, party and baby shower favors, gifts and supplies.  Seriously, they have everything, and I love "getting lost" on their site!   If you're planning ANY kind of party at all, whatever theme, you're probably going to find what you want here.  Here's what I've been loving this week, mostly for my daughter's upcoming birthday party: Mini Classic Gumball Machines from: Beau-coup.com Cupcake Towel Favor from: Beau-coup.com Custom Color Fortune Cookie from: Beau-coup.com If you're in the buying mood right now, please support Sweetest Whimsy Retail Love and order through my affiliate link : Even better, Beau-Coup has a sweet deal for you this week: FREE SHIPPING on orders of $25 or more!    Just use the code WILDTHING at checkout, through May 3.

I am thrilled that Sweetest Whimsy has recently become an affiliate for several companies that offer products that I ADORE!  Starting today, I will feature these companies and some of my favorite things from their websites in my RETAIL LOVE. It's no secret that I've had a love affair with paper practically my whole life. It was pure serendipity that led me to start offering paper in addition to my custom cakes in 2005.  But I absolutely love anything that has to do with the art and craft of paper. So when I stumbled upon Minted's website , I instantly loved all their designs.  Unlike other stationery companies, Minted is an online global community of designers, and you can even become one of them!  The designs are fresh and beautiful and most of all, unique.  In addition to cards, stationery and invitations, Minted also now offers art prints. My kids' birthdays are in the spring, so I've been shopping around for *the* birthday invitation!  Here ...

Have you heard about the new personalized greeting card company, Treat ? Treat is a new brand from the folks at Shutterfly and Tiny Prints that lets you create unique, personalized greeting cards. With more than 4,500 customized card designs at launch, the Treat service offers one of the industry’s largest selections from the best designers, including Hallmark. To ensure that you never miss an important date like a birthday or anniversary, Treat also offers an integrated service that will remind you of all those important events. A Treat calendar can be set up with reminders for anniversaries, events, family holidays and more. Plus, users can use Facebook Connect to link their Facebook and Treat accounts to import friends’ birthdays. Treat is an easy and revolutionary new way to make personalized greetings in your own style and personality just in time for Mother's Day! Here is how it works: Choose your card from their thousands of designs , including the Mot...